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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: USN-5476-1 Moderate: Liblouis Input Handling Issues

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Calendar Grey June 13, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Immediate updates for Ubuntu's liblouis security flaws tackling crash and code execution vulnerabilities to improve safety.
Several security issues were fixed in liblouis.

Summary

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security advisory arbitrary code execution moderate severity ubuntu crash exploit input handling liblouis

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: liblouis-bin 3.20.0-2ubuntu0.1 liblouis20 3.20.0-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 21.10: liblouis-bin 3.18.0-1ubuntu0.2 liblouis20 3.18.0-1ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: liblouis-bin 3.12.0-3ubuntu0.1 liblouis20 3.12.0-3ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: liblouis-bin 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.4 liblouis14 3.5.0-1ubuntu0.4 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5476-1

CVE-2022-26981, CVE-2022-31783

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June 13, 2022

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security advisory arbitrary code execution moderate severity ubuntu crash exploit input handling liblouis

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/liblouis/3.20.0-2ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/liblouis/3.18.0-1ubuntu0.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/liblouis/3.12.0-3ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/liblouis/3.5.0-1ubuntu0.4

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